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Lubinsky Travels to International Tennis Hall of Fame |
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Written by Lisa Jordan Kilborn
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 While trolling Facebook for some local tennis photos, I came across this beauty of TennisFortWorth.com supporter Mary Lubinsky, a competitive senior who travels near and far to play tournaments. She often teams up with her daughter, Anna, who starred at Texas A&M a few years ago. They have had great success at important mother-daughter tournaments for many years.
Lubinsky grew up in the TCU area, and when she comes back to visit it’s always nice to catch up. But this time we caught her posting photos of herself at the Hall of Fame. She got to play on the grass there and reports that she loved it.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:27 |
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Celebrity Sighting at Colonial |
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Written by TennisFortWorth.com Staff
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Lynn O'Loughlin (L) and Kaye Beth Pumphrey Vietti (R) step off the court at Colonial Country Club for a photo with Fort Worth resident Pat Green, who played junior tennis before becoming a singing star.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:28 |
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Tennis Goods Shipped to Kenya Last Year Stuck in Customs |
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Written by TennisFortWorth.com Staff
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 Collins Agwanda, the director of Victoria Tennis Academy in Kenya, says the generous shipment of tennis goods donated last year by U.S. donors, including many North Texans, continues to gather dust in Customs. He says he needs 450,000 Kenyan Shillings, which is equivalent to $5,339 U.S. dollars, for the equipment to be released to his academy.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 06 October 2012 14:52 |
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ATC Veteran Brasko Qualifies Four Teams for Sectionals |
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Written by Lisa Jordan Kilborn
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 Peggy Brasko continues to play tennis seemingly all day, every day, and her efforts are paying off once again. She has qualified all four of her teams for USTA Sectionals.
“We did it again,” Brasko told us in an email update (which we encourage all tennis players in the Greater Fort Worth area to do). “My 40s team won today to go to Sectionals in November. That makes all four of my teams going to Sectionals.”
Brasko is always overjoyed when any of her teams finishes well and is always willing to captain another team. She is a proud mama to each of her teams. “I am so proud of all these teams--LADIES as they played--practiced all summer in the heat and never complained,” she wrote in the email.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:53 |
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Fort Worth Tennis Pair Keenum & Wooley Get Married |
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Written by Lisa Jordan Kilborn
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 USTA leaguer Kelly Keenum, a huge promoter of all things Fort Worth tennis, married Ridglea Country Club pro Shawn Wooley on Sept. 22 in Laguna Beach, Calif. The two have been inseparable on the Fort Worth tennis scene for over a year.
Keenum shares her love of tennis with her parents, who live a stone's throw from the TCU campus. In fact, TennisFortWorth.com became aware of the Keenum-Wooley relationship at a tennis meeting at the Keenum family's home.
Congratulations to the happy couple. See you at the next big event.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:26 |
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TennisFortWorth.com Reaches 50,000 Milestone |
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Written by Lisa Jordan Kilborn
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 After just a year and a half, TennisFortWorth.com got its 50,000th unique visit Saturday, Sept. 15. By coincidence, that was also the day we ran our third Junior Media Playday, this time at All Saints Episcopal School in west Fort Worth.
Unique visits measure how many new people are introduced to a website, as opposed to repeat visits by regulars. Regulars are the lifeblood of the website, while unique visits indicate growth. We like having a healthy mix of both.
Thank you to the Greater Fort Worth Tennis Coalition, which recently renewed our contract to run TennisFortWorth.com for two more years. The GFWTC hired us in early 2011 to start a website that would cover the Greater Fort Worth area, and we have done our best to make everyone happy.
Please continue to tell your friends about us; to send your news- and feature-story ideas to us, and to send us photos from your events. And keep playing and supporting the game of tennis.
Contact me, blogger Lisa Jordan Kilborn, here via email or on Facebook. I always love hearing from website visitors. I consider every tennis player out there my friend.
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Last Updated on Monday, 17 September 2012 11:21 |
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